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Frangoise (Claude Brasseur) is a television writer who is both down on his luck and new ideas. He travels to Nice, France in the hopes of finding inspiration. He walks along the cold, winter beach where he encounters an attractive young woman named Peggy (Mirelle Dare).

Her icy attitude leaves Frangois little hope of starting a relationship, however, Peggy is soon disarmed by his warmth and personality. Their encounters continue, but Frangois is troubled by the fact that he knows nothing of the girl and Peggy volunteers no information about her past or present. She lives in an isolated villa and the mystery surrounding her only grows deeper as other members of the household are identified.

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Based on the memoir of French police detective Roger Borniche, 'Flic Story' grippingly recreates a violent post-war crime spree that shocked a nation still reeling from Nazi occupation.

When Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant) France's most notorious criminal escapes from a mental asylum, his bloody rampage has politicians and the press demanding results. Paris cop Roger Borniche (Alain Delon) gets the thankless job of finding Buisson and either bringing him in or stopping him dead. Through rooftop pursuits, alley stakeouts, nightclub showdowns, and car to car gun battles, Borniche, a stylish and scrupulously ethical "flic" (French slang for "cop"), is forced to break the rules he usually only bends.

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Burt Lancaster is Agent Cross, a C.I.A. operative with a shocking secret; Alain Delon is Scorpio, a French assassin with a hard-earned reputation for always getting his man. Both are experts in their field – brave, intelligent, and lethal.

And when they're thrust together by personal ambitions and political forces beyond their control, each man finds himself fighting for his life amidst the brutal realities of the Cold War.

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In 1887, an earthquake decimates the island of Goto. Cut off from the rest of the world, the governor of Goto rules his subjects with an iron fist. Glossia (Ligia Branice), his beautiful wife, plots to escape the island with a handsome young officer, Gono (Jean-Pierre Andréani).

But Grozo, a petty criminal, has other ideas. While feeding the governor's dogs, polishing the governess's boots and trapping flies which blight the island, Grozo dreams of possessing Glossia for himself...

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Lorna (Patricia Granada) is a beautiful woman living all alone, with only her books and paintings for company. Then one day Triana (Lidia Zuazo), a wild, dark haired gypsy girl comes to stay with her. Soon the pair are lovers.

But Triana has a dark secret that manifests itself in frightening dreams of domination and humiliation. Unable to resist the strange passions that consume her, Lorna finds herself sucked deeper and deeper into the whirlpool that surrounds her strange lover.

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An epic 'fantasy swordplay-adventure' in the vein of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' from Palm D'Or nominee King Hu and Chitig Siu-tung, the acclaimed director of the 'Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy', 'The Swordsman' combines resplendent imagery, award-winning hyperkinetic fight action and emotive

drama to re-create a classic story of love, honour and betrayal, as a fabled warrior battles the forces of evil to protect the secrets of an ancient scroll and ultimately discover his destiny.

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"Tromeo and Juliet" moves Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed love from 16th Century Verona to a crumbling modern day New York, where young Tromeo (Will Keenan) and Juliet (Jane Jenson) must defy their families endless feud in order to be together for eternity.

Featuring all the body piercing, kinky sex, car crashes and dismemberment that Shakespeare always wanted but never had, 'Tromeo and Juliet' is the most subversive and original literary adaptation ever put on screen!

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Welcome to Tromaville, a small American town which is being terrorized by criminals while the towns Mayor sits idly by. Among the residents of Tromaville is Melvin, a wimp of a young man and a janitor at the local health club.

He is forever teased and tormented by the strong, beautiful men and women of the club as he goes about his daily menial tasks. A particularly nasty group of Melvin's tormentors devise a plot to ridicule him in front of the whole town. BUT, the 'harmless' pranks turns into a horrible accident as Melvin crashes through a third story widow and lands in a vat of hazardous toxic chemicals. The rest, as they say, is history! As the toxic chemicals take hold of Melvin's body, a strange transformation begins to take place. Melvin the weakling turns into a huge, hulking 'Toxic Avenger' - the first superhero in New Jersey! The excitement is non-stop as this monstrous mess of mutated man sets out to single-handedly wipe out the forces of evil which contaminates the town of Tromaville.

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In the early 90s, cult filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fellow Hong Kong director Jeff Lau established Jet Tone Films, an independent production company responsible for some of the most remarkable films to have emerged from the region.

Jeff Lau's film 'The Eagle Shooting Heroes' is based upon the same famous Louis Cha navel as Wong's own 'Ashes of Time', which was shot concurrently and shares much of the same star-studded cast. A complete subversion of the Wu Xia Pian martial arts genre, Lau's film is a wickedly funny parody which piles on love triangles, bizarre musical numbers and entertaining action sequences choreographed by Sammo Hung [Enter the Dragon) to create one of Hong Kong cinema's mast beloved cult classics.

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Ashes of Time is inspired by characters from Louis Cha’s novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes. It centers on a man named Ouyang Feng. Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings.

His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of his solitude... The flag is still. The wind is calm. It’s the heart of man that is in turmoil! The story takes place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts. Ouyang Feng has lived in the western desert for some years. He left his home in White Camel Mountain when the woman he loved chose to marry his elder brother rather than him. Instead of seeking glory, he ends up as an agent. When people come to him with a wish to eliminate someone who has wronged them, he puts them in touch with a swordsman who can do the job.

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Set in a small West German town in 1957, where, with the help of the Economic Miracle, a booming economy is generating a new sense of optimism. In the town brothel, "Villa Fink", Lola (Barbara Sukowa), a young high-class prostitute with a zest for life, is the star of the show.

Her favorite client is the influential developer Schuckert (Mario Adorf), who enjoys spending time at Villa Fink with city officials important to his construction business. When Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), an upright, energetic building commissioner with a liberal, social-democratic outlook, arrives in the town, he falls in love with Lola without being aware where she works by night. Although he is shocked when he learns of her true identity, he nevertheless marries her to the satisfaction of all concerned. Ultimately neither Lola, Von Bohm nor Schuckert are really concerned with what has happened in the past or the morality of their decisions - the main thing is that they get what they want.

The chocolate business has been good to Russian exile Hermann. He enjoys the good life with his beautiful wife Lydia. But Hermann is addicted to out-of-body experiences and when he meets a tramp on a business trip, he hatches an insane escape plan.

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Set in the kingdom of Oudh during the last days of the Moghul Empire, 'The Chess Players' marked the first time that the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray worked outside of his native Bengal.

The story follows two Indian noblemen (Saeed Jaffrey and Sanjeev Kumar) whose obsession with the game of chess renders them oblivious to the treacherous and historic events happening around them. In one of his finest performances, Richard Attenborough stars as General Outram, the British officer who covertly manoeuvres on behalf of the East India Company to seize control of the region and depose its King.

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Made in quick succession in 1970 and 1971, 'Beware of a Holy Whore' and 'The Merchant of Four Seasons' represent a key stage in the career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the point at which he matured as a filmmaker and first began to attract an international audience.

A fictional recounting of the making of Whity, Fassbinder's take on the American West, 'Beware of a Holy Whore' is a backstage melodrama set in a Spanish seaside hotel. Starring Lou Castel (Requiescant) as the director and Eddie Constantine (Alphaville) as himself, the film is an intriguing and often acidic look through the mirror at Fassbinder and his 'family' of cast and crew. 'The Merchant of Four Seasons' concerns itself with Flans, a fruit seller, former Foreign Legionnaire and family man. Inspired by the discovery of Douglas Sirk's work - and set, like those classic melodramas, in the 1950s - Fassbinder charts Flans' downfall with a perfect blend of poignancy and high drama. The Sirkian formula worked so well it would inspire a new phase in the director's output and produce such classics as 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Fear Eats the Soul'.

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When dashing pilot Arun (Rajesh Khanna) romances Vandana Tripathi (Sharmila Tagore), Vandana becomes pregnant and the couple have a quiet temple wedding ceremony before Arun leaves to re-join his duties.

Unfortunately, Arun is killed, and Vandana is unable to convince anyone of her marriage to him, and in these circumstances must re-locate to hide her shame. She gives birth to a baby boy, whom she has to place in an orphanage, and then adopt back. Unfortunately for her, the boy is adopted by someone else. She manages to find out the adopted family's whereabouts, and gets a job in their home as a servant. When she is about to be molested by one of their relatives, Shyam (Manmohan), her now grown-up son Suraj (also played by Rajesh Khanna) witnesses this, and kills him. Vandana takes the blame for this killing and is sentenced to imprisonment, leaving her son and her life behind for a crime she did not commit.